Ilived at west egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. . across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable east egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening i drove over there to have dinner with the tom buchanans. based on these descriptions, what inference can be made about the difference between west egg and east egg? the wealthy residents of east egg hide their unattractive qualities beneath light and dreamy appearances. because the residents of west egg have only recently earned their money, they are more sophisticated. west egg is less fashionable because its residents have much less money than the residents of east egg. the residents of west egg and east egg are noticeably different from one another, but they often socialize together.

A) The wealthy residents of East Egg hide their unattractive qualities beneath light and dreamy appearances.

Explanation: In the given excerpt from "The Great Gatsby" by Scott Fitzgerald, we can see the description of the constrast between the West Egg and the East Egg. Based on the information from the excerpt we can infer that despite appearing more fashionable, the East Egg might not be as beautiful as it seems, so the correct answer is option A: The wealthy residents of East Egg hide their unattractive qualities beneath light and dreamy appearances.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

the answer to this question is unstoppable.